Bestall--Harrold, etc. | Rupert the Bear Collection, incl. complete set of The Rupert Adventure Series (236 volumes)

Alfred Bestall--Alex Cube--John Harrold--Stuart Trotter

Collection of 236 volumes and two prints of Rupert the Bear material, including a complete set of ‘The Rupert Adventure Series’, comprising:

Rupert Annuals. Daily Express Publication / Egmont, 1936, 1942 and 1945-2019, 77 volumes, some later volumes with limited signed edition stickers, or signed by John Harrold or Stuart Trotter, occasionally worn and soiled, many price-clipped, 1936 volume disbound and lacking several leaves, 1942 volume with facsimile wrappers, 1950 volume lacking spine

[together with:]

Rupert Annuals. Daily Express Publication / Egmont, 1947, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1979-81, 1984-86, 1989, 1990, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998-2003, 2005-2008, 44 volumes (two copies of 1967, two copies of 1971, three copies of 1972, two copies of 1990, three copies of 1998, two copies of 2001, two copies of 2002, two copies of 2006), many significantly worn and soiled, many price-clipped, 1947 volume lacking half of upper wrapper, 1953 volume lacking spine, 1954 volume lacking final leaf, 1958 volume upper hinge split, 1961 volume spine torn, 1967 volume lacking preliminaries, 1971 volume loss to foot of spine, 2003 volume with water damage

[together with:]

Rupert Annuals. Express Newspapers / Pedigree Books / Classic Media, 1985-2011, 24 volumes of facsimile reproductions of annuals for 1936-45, 1948-53, 1955, 1957-59, 1963, 1965, 1966 and 1970, many with slipcases

[together with:]

The Rupert Adventure Series. Daily Express Publication, [1948]-1963, 50 volumes (Numbers 1–50), original wrappers, many worn and soiled, occasional repairs, book number 1 lacking lower wrapper

[together with:]

Rupert Adventure Books. Daily Express Publication, 1973, 2 volumes (Numbers 1–2), original wrappers, biro marks to number 2

together with 30 Newsletters or Special Issues from 'The Followers of Rupert' and 9 other volumes

[together with:]

Harrold, J. ‘Nutwood Christmas Eve’, 260 by 390mm., print signed by the artist and numbered ‘70/300 S’, mounted, framed and glazed

[together with:]

Harrold, J. ‘Nutwood Night Class’, 365 by 390mm., print numbered ‘725/950’, framed and glazed